GI Joe A Real American Hero And GI Joe Renegades Coming To Vimeo

Deadline has reported that Hasbro will be bringing its entire library of classic animated series to Vimeo. While the 1st series to come will be Jem & The Holograms and Transformers Generation 1, more series will follow later this year, such as GI Joe A Real American Hero & GI Joe Renegades! More information:

Individual episodes will sell for $2.99 and rent for 99 cents. Entire series can be purchased for $40. Eventually, hundreds of episodes from 13 franchises will be available this year on Vimeo. Other series include My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, G.I. Joe, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, G.I. Joe: Renegades, Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters, Littlest Pet Shop, Pound Puppies, The Adventures of Chuck & Friends and B-Daman Crossfire.

I agree the pricing is fairly insane and instead of one of the big names in streaming they went for a company that most streaming people don't use.

At least with Netflix there was a chance of reaching a wider audience. I just don't see kids beating a path to the GI Joe door if the only access to GI Joe is $3 an episode for old cartoon episodes. I don't have a degree in business so I don't see how this is a good thing at all for the brand.

I suspect this was a profit thing. All the shows on the service so far are legacy shows that aren't actively being supported by Hasbro (Transformers Prime, at least, is the predecessor to the current Transformers cartoon), and Hasbro might not have felt Netflix was willing to pay what Hasbro feels this content is worth.

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Originally Posted by Caravankidd

At least with Netflix there was a chance of reaching a wider audience. I just don't see kids beating a path to the GI Joe door if the only access to GI Joe is $3 an episode for old cartoon episodes. I don't have a degree in business so I don't see how this is a good thing at all for the brand.

I seriously doubt any NEW GI joe content will be exclusive to this service. And hate to break it to you, but kids aren't beating a path to GI joe to begin with, and weren't doing so when the shows WERE on Netflix anyway (not that Hasbro is doing much of anything to really support those old shows anyway in terms of product)